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September 2005 - Posts

• Refactoring

  I wonder how many around consider “refactoring” a full fledge activity to consider it and allocate time for it in software project plans? I have seen people making statements, “let us complete it this way, once it will be done, we will re-factor it” and Read More... Posted Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:30 PM by khurram | 2 Comments Filed under: Software Engg., General

• System Administrators Myth

  There exists a category of system administrators that don’t like Windows running on machines in their server racks. I understand; Unix/Linux has its culture; and its followers will not like Windows. One thing that annoy me; most of them basically don’t Read More... Posted Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:25 PM by khurram | 8 Comments Filed under: General, System Administration

• Side affects of marriage

  After marriage (it’s been more than 4 years now) the few differences I have noticed in my life are I drive comparatively slow and with more care; especially when my family is with me; I think this is positive change; my car maintenance expenditures are Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:20 AM by khurram | 3 Comments Filed under: Personal

• Windows Workflow Foundation

  Has anyone checked Windows Workflow Foundation ? Man its cool. A colleague of mine has been developing workflow system for our company’s department (which is involved in generating 60% of my company’s revenue these days); and implementing things from Read More... Posted Saturday, September 24, 2005 4:17 PM by khurram | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, DotNetNuke

• Update :: PDC05 - First Parent Teacher Meeting - MOBLOGS

  Has anyone checked the stream of PDC05 keynote? They showcased number of good things; I personally like two things; the LINQ; Query language extensions in C#, and how Windows Vista uses memory sticks as system RAM. Atlas is another platform worth to look Read More... Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:43 AM by khurram | 3 Comments Filed under: Personal

• Using interfaces to pass configurations through tiers

  Most of the application needs set of configuration to work smoothly, e.g. database connection string. I am a big fan of using interfaces, one of the biggest advantages it of using them with modern compiler is that you will not be able to compile your Read More... Posted Monday, September 12, 2005 2:16 PM by khurram | 0 Comments Filed under: Software Engg., .NET

• SQL Server:: Corrupt sysdepends can create problem in DTS

  SQL Server internally keeps tracks of database objects and their inter-dependencies. In routine operations; I guess this information is not being used; however if you Script your database (SQL-DMO API) this information is used to order the DML queries. Read More... Posted Friday, September 09, 2005 5:50 PM by khurram | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• ADSI :: Permission Errors in Web Application

  If you are trying to access Active Directory services using ADSI in a web application, and your web server is not an Active Directory controller; you might get Permission Errors, (especially if you are trying to change user passwords etc). If you are Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 11:56 AM by khurram | 0 Comments Filed under: COM, System Administration

• Moblogs Milestone 2 Plans

  Today after an evening walk; I will try to start working on Moblogs Milestone 2. Here is the list of planned work. This is again the work on backend engine. Security Implementation Add option to verify registered sender email id(s) (which the moblog owner(s) Read More... Posted Monday, September 05, 2005 6:08 PM by khurram | 0 Comments

• WinFS and MSH

  Yesterday; I downloaded Microsoft Shell (MSH/Monad) and Windows File System (WinFS) and I am pleased and super excited to see the strong roots of Microsoft .NET in these two platforms. We can create Command-lets and/or functions (sort of scripts) that Read More... Posted Thursday, September 01, 2005 5:49 PM by khurram | 1 Comments Filed under: System Administration